Of course, Swearengin also is mayor of Fresno and suggested that she wasn’t exactly thrilled to have Kashkari — and his film crew — drop by unannounced for a week to show how tough it is to be homeless in California’s fifth-largest city.

If Kashkari had stopped by City Hall, Swearengin said, she could have shown him new low-income housing and told him of other efforts under way to ease the city’s homeless problem.

Trying to make lemonade out of what Fresno viewed as a lemon of a video, Swearengin said her takeaway from Kashkari’s experience was “how well he was treated by everyone in the city,” even the cops who told the candidate for governor to “move along” when he tried to sleep on a park bench.

Kashkari’s view of Fresno isn’t the only place where he and Swearengin disagree. Like plenty of Central Valley politicians, the mayor is a supporter of California’s high-speed rail plan, which Kashkari has dubbed “the crazy train.”

The train, which would run through the Central Valley on its way from the Bay Area to Southern California, “makes sense for Fresno,” she said.

Swearengin complimented Gov. Jerry Brown for supporting the train, said he had improved the financial plan for the system and was “putting amazing people on the (high-speed rail) board.”